-- My compliments to the Fairhope High School all-county boys track team. The photograph in the Baldwin Register is absolutely delightful: The white shirts with yellow-and-blue bow ties. They all look so handsome.

City is cracking up

-- What are they using to fix our roads, Silly Putty? This is crazy that this many streets are breaking up.

Alabama the Ugly

-- On the subject of the trash in Dog River: People have to start putting their trash where it belongs. I don’t know how other states do it, but let’s find out. When you leave Mississippi coming into Alabama, a sign says “Alabama the Beautiful.” We should keep Alabama beautiful.

‘A want and a need’

-- It’s a sad day when it takes the threat of a lawsuit for Mobile to step up and do the right thing. Deciding between spending money on celebrations or cleaning up Dog River should’ve been a no-brainer. Even as a child, I was taught the difference between a want and a need. Perhaps the mayor and his cronies need a refresher course.

Kicking and fighting

-- This deal about the soccer field with the city and county not being able to come together is so typical of Mobile. I don’t even know why I chose to move back here after being gone 20 years. We might as well let Baldwin County have everything. They’re the only ones that have any sense about things right for families.

Crybabies in cleats

-- For all you crybabies whining over the recycling center: Why don’t you just take your little ol’ soccer ball and go home?

Get to work, Steve

-- Steve Nodine is in the paper again this morning, still costing us taxpayers a lot of money. Is there any way that he can start now with community service and pay us back?

Hand in the cookie jar

-- Senator Trip Pittman should stay out of city and state contracts for any type of work. If it’s not unethical, it still has the appearance of being a conflict of interest, especially when you think about state employees and teachers being limited to $25 gifts they can receive. But a state senator can get $600,000 for an oil spill contract?

Free sand for all

-- I’m a resident of Dauphin Island and I have never had to pay to walk our beaches before. This will stop a lot of families from coming down here in these economic times. Where is the money BP gave us? This is another way the Park and Beach Board have things wrapped up with a red ribbon on top.

The Gimme Generation

-- The trouble with this younger generation is they’ve never had to work for anything. If they’re in sports or any kind of activity, everyone gets a trophy. Well, that makes a trophy worthless! And the ones that do try are not rewarded. So why should they try in the future? We just spoil them.

Doing what is right & just

-- I’d like to thank the person who found my wallet in a basket at Academy Sports last week and turned it in. Everything was intact. There are still honest people in the world.